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found in myfelf a kind of ftupidity, and want of power to 

 refle<n: upon what had pailed. I feemed to be, as if awaken- 

 ed from a dream when the fenfes are yet half afleep, 

 and we only begin to doubt whether what has before 

 pailed in thoughts is real or not. The dangers that I was 

 juft now delivered from made no impreffion upon my mind, 

 and what more and more convinces me I was for a time 

 not in my perfect fenfes, is, that I found in myfelf a hard- 

 heartednefs, without the leaft inclination to be thankful 

 for that fignal deliverance which I had juft now expe- 

 rienced. 



From this ftupor I was awakened by the arrival of the fol- 

 dier, who cried out to us at fome diftance, " You muft come 

 to the Aga to the caftle, all of you, as faft as you can, the 

 Turk is gone before you." " It will not be very faft, if we 

 even fliould do that, faid I ; the Turk has ridden two days on 

 a camel, and I have walked on foot, and do not know at pre- 

 fent if I can walk at all." I endeavoured, at the fame time,, 

 to rife and ftand upright, which I did not fucceed in, after 

 feveral attempts, without great pain and difficulty. I obfer- 

 ved the foldier was in a prodigious aftonifhment at my ap- 

 pearance, habit, and above all, at my diftrefs. " We fliall 

 get people in town, fays he, to affift you, and if you cannot 

 walk, the Aga will fend you a mule." 



The Turk and the Greeks were cloathed much in the 

 fame manner ; Ifmael and Michael had in their hands two 

 monfirous blunderbulTes. The whole town crowded after 

 us while we walked to the caftle, and could not fatiate 

 themfelvcs with admiring a company of fuch an extraordi- 

 nary appearance. The Aga was ftruck dumb upon our 

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